Carey closing New Orleans campus

Drop in nursing school enrollment cited as reason

5:06 PM,
Feb. 26, 2013

Tommy King

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William Carey is planning to close its New Orleans campus, according to university officials.

"The reason we have closed the (nursing) program in New Orleans is that the enrollment since (Hurricane) Katrina has not come back as we expected. We have subsidized the program for five years and for financial reasons have made the decision to close it," William Carey President Tommy King said via email.

Operations will cease in December, when all 80 current nursing students enrolled on the campus have completed their courses, according to Barbara Hamilton, executive assistant to the ...